Urwah
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- UR-wa
- Origin
- Arabic
- UK rank, 2025
- #5,990 for girls
Urwah is a girls' name of Arabic origin, meaning “handhold, firm grip”. In 2025 it ranked 5,990th for girls in the UK (3 babies).
What does Urwah mean?
Arabic: spelling of Urwa
“handhold, firm grip”
The Quran calls faith in God al-urwa al-wuthqa, 'the firmest handhold'.
Meaning borrowed from Urwa.
Is Urwah a girl's or a boy's name?
Urwah is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 3 girls and 5 boys in the UK.
How popular is Urwah in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- 5,990th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 3 about 1 in 93,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Falling fast down 61% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 3 girls in the UK were named Urwah, making it the 5,990th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 3,009th. Its busiest year was 2021, with 11 girls. 5 boys were also named Urwah in 2025 (3,747th for boys).
Half of all the girls named Urwah in the UK since 1996 were born between 2009 and 2020, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 12 girls in the UK were given Urwah or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,977, up from #5,990 for this spelling alone.
- Urwa 9
- Urwah 3
Among girls in 2025, it was 5,925th in England and Wales.
Urwah in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 3 | #5,990 |
| 2024 | 6 | #3,758 |
| 2023 | 0 | – |
| 2022 | 6 | #3,728 |
| 2021 | 11 | #2,478 |
| 2020 | 8 | #3,009 |
| 2019 | 8 | #3,018 |
| 2018 | 7 | #3,344 |
| 2017 | 7 | #3,395 |
| 2016 | 5 | #4,290 |
| 2015 | 7 | #3,433 |
| 2014 | 8 | #3,031 |
| 2013 | 6 | #3,719 |
| 2012 | 0 | – |
| 2011 | 0 | – |
| 2010 | 5 | #4,220 |
| 2009 | 4 | #4,795 |
| 2008 | 3 | #5,772 |
| 2007 | 0 | – |
| 2006 | 0 | – |
| 2005 | 4 | #4,150 |
| 2004 | 6 | #2,957 |
| 2003 | 0 | – |
| 2002 | 3 | #4,284 |
| 2001 | 5 | #2,928 |
| 2000 | 3 | #4,074 |
| 1999 | 0 | – |
| 1998 | 3 | #4,026 |
Names like Urwah
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Safa, Nusaybah, Ayah, Zainab, Aaliyah, Ruqayyah, Umaymah, Sumayyah, Umamah, Hiba, Izzah, Rahma
Other spellings of Urwah
More Arabic names
Muhammad, Layla, Mohammed, Lyla, Mohammad, Zara, Amir, Amira, Fatima, Ali, Yahya, Zayn, Aisha, Omar, Zahra, Hamza
Sources
Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland) and Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Urwah: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/urwah, updated 20 October 2026.